DS Games for Girls: My Games

I'll come right out and admit it, we are a gaming family. On Friday nights you'll find us winging our Wii-mote and the DS is an essential when traveling with the kids. My seven-year old daughter likes to play racing and blasting games, but she also likes more 'girly' adventures too. O-GAMES has come out with four new DS games just for girls and they sent copies along for us, I mean my daughter, to try out.

MY MAKE-UP DS GAME FOR GIRLS

With your virtual character, which you create and customize, you can give yourself a spa treatment, a make-up makeover or try your hand at a little face painting. You can choose different face masks, make-up brush sizes and make-up colours. When you're done your character's makeover, check your message for make-over request from your virtual friends.

I find the make-up game a lot of work, but than I'm not a young girl with a desire to wear make-up. My daughter on the other hand loves this game. She loves the idea of putting on make-up but since she's not allowed to wear it herself, this game gives her a chance to use it and create fun looks. She likes using the face paint and creating animal faces and also getting makeover request messages.

MY DRESS-UP DS GAME FOR GIRLS

Have a budding fashion designer in your house? With My Dress-Up, you can create a customized look with over 600 items, including shirts, shoes, hats, jewelry and more. Plus you can customize your fabrics by choosing a pattern and colour or combination of colours. When your look is complete, check it out on the runway and save it to your wardrobe, make changes or start all over again. Then check your messages for design requests from your virtual friends.

I know I'm not the target, but I had fun creating outfits. It was so easy to do. My daughter enjoyed creating outfits based on her virtual friends' needs, though she felt there were a lot of themed outfit requests and was getting tired of producing these (lots of Halloween costume requests). She also found creating her own outfits a lot of work; she felt a little overwhelmed by all the choices.

MY FRIENDS DS GAME FOR GIRLS

In this virtual world you create friends to play with. You can customize the look and outfit for each friend and yourself. Then you're off to explore your neighbourhood. As you walk around you discover gifts and treats to add to your collection and share with your friends. Playing games unlocks new areas in the neighbourhood and new games.

The game uses two screens: the bottom screen is a close-up of your character and what's near them, the top screen is a bird's eye view of the neighbourhood you're in and where surprises, friends and the game portal are. I found using the two screens took some adjusting, especially when playing tag games. My daughter loved this game, actually I think this was her favourite out of all four. She loved creating different friends, sharing gifts and playing games with them. She would create virtual versions of her real friends and would pretend she was meeting them or playing with them.

MY SECRET DIARY DS GAME FOR GIRLS

Store important dates and special thoughts in this electronic diary, plus keep track of all your friends in an address book. You can write short notes and include picture icons to remember special events now or in the future. When you've finished recording your thoughts, try some of the fun games like quizzes and fortune cookies.

The space for recording thoughts or details in the calendar is very limiting; it's meant for simple one line notes: today was a great day or I'm sad it's Monday, but maybe that's all the space young kids need. My daughter enjoyed this. She typed in a few diary entries, but her favourite part was the games. She liked the whole fortune tellling games. The diary aspect might appeal to a slightly older girl.

All the My Games have a chat feature that enables you to chat with your friends within range (if they have the My Games also). My daughter had a great time using all four games. I think she liked playing games that were just for her.

GIVEAWAY!

Have a DS gaming girl in your house or know of one? Everything Mom has two (2) My Games gift packs to giveaway, consisting of one (1) of each of the four (4) My Game DS games (My Make-Up, My Dress-Up, My Friends, My Secret Diary).

To enter all you have to do is tell us what's on your child's wish list this Christmas. Make sure to leave your email address where indicated so we have a way to contact you if you win. Contest closes Nov 16/09.

Sorry, due to shipping this contest is only open to Canadian residents.

* Product provided for review.

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Posted by Carrie Anne in toy reviews on November 08, 2009

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+2 # fdnstudio 2009-11-09 05:51

A DS is actually on my daughter's wish list and this would be a huge helping addition!

Fate maybe?!
My email is info@foundation studio.ca
(Hope I win!!)
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DS Games for Girls: My Games